Farmers do not agree with the cabinet's new nitrogen plans.
Road users have to take into account a very heavy morning and evening rush on Wednesday due to the announced demonstrations by farmers. You could hear them early in the morning around the Ekkersweijer junction in Eindhoven. Hundreds of farmers took their tractors from Brabant to the national day of action in Stroe on the Veluwe. The police had previously announced that they would take action against tractors on the highway, but farmers were not stopped and were even escorted by the police on the A2.
The Limburg farmers left Nederweert for Eindhoven. It would concern more than 70 tractors and trucks. That procession caused the first traffic jam at the Ekkersweijer junction around 6.30 am. Perhaps the largest protest by farmers ever in our country. Thousands of farmers in Stroe in the municipality of Barneveld. In some places the farmers drive on the highways, despite the fact that the organization of the protest has called for not to use the highways in advance.
civil war
The Ministry of Agriculture is counting on disruptive resistance from the farmers in Stroe. That's what it writes NRC† Farmers are expected to occupy government buildings, shut down supermarket distribution and even seriously threaten drivers. Party chairman of the Christian Union Gert-Jan Segers spoke joined WNL Hague Lobby yesterday† To ensure safe traffic flow, Rijkswaterstaat closed the road, including the connecting roads, to The Hague (A12) at the Prins Clausplein junction. Traffic could detour from exit Leidschendam (A4) via the N14.
“It has everything to go completely off the rails in a huge polarization. Between city and countryside, between one half of the Netherlands and the other half. We are now going to divide scarcity. In nitrogen space, in healthy air, in good soil. That could, perhaps in a civilized way, become a form of civil war.”
Because Rijkswaterstaat takes into account with a very heavy morning and evening rush hour, people who can work from home on wednesday are advised to do so. The ANWB also called on travelers who have to be in the vicinity of the protest to postpone their trip if possible.
